autogen 5.15 fails shell.hlp test case

[howarth@…]

The MacPorts autogen 5.15 package is currently not passing the autogen testsuite.

The autoopts/test/shell.test test is failing as...

FAILURE: script generator help output mismatch: * shell.hlp Sat Mar 17 20:12:00 2012
--- shell.help Sat Mar 17 20:12:00 2012
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* 1,25

• genshellopt - Generate Shell Option Processing Script - Ver. 1
  
• USAGE: shell [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]...
  
• Flg Arg Option-Name Description
  
• -o Str script Output Script File
  
• -s Str shell Shell name (follows "#!" magic)
  
• - disabled as --no-shell
  
• - enabled by default
  
• -v opt version Output version information and exit
  
• -? no help Display extended usage information and exit
  
• -! no more-help Extended usage information passed thru pager
  
• Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single
  
• hyphen and the flag character.
  
• = = = = = = = =
  
• This incarnation of genshell will produce
  
• a shell script to parse the options for test_shell:
  
• test_shell - Test AutoOpts for shell
  
• USAGE: test_shell [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]... \
  
• reg-arg [ ... ]
  
• Flg Arg Option-Name Description
  
• -o Str option The option option descrip
  
• -s no second The second option descrip
  
• -? no help Display extended usage information and exit
  
• -! no more-help Extended usage information passed thru pager
  
• Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single
  
• hyphen and the flag character.
  

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FAIL: shell.test

This has been filed upstream as...

​https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=103593&aid=3507334&group_id=3593#[[BR]]

The autogen developers can't reproduce this failure (although I can also reproduce
under fink). Any help we can give the autogen developer in debugging this[[BR] ]apparent sed issue on darwin would be appreciated.